Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1992, 3:59 AM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1992, 3:59 AM CDT (08:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1992, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osage County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 4:00 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Osage, OK |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3665 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 9.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 140859 SVRTUL OKC113-141000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 359 AM CDT THU MAY 14 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...OSAGE COUNTY AT 358 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TULSA INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY. THE MOST SEVERE STORM WAS 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PAWHUSKA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS IN OSAGE COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 53 min |
| May 14, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 45 min |
| May 14, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 50 min |
| May 14, 5:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 57 min |
| May 14, 5:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 46 min |
| May 14, 6:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 52 min |
| May 14, 7:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 68 min |
| May 14, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 34 min |
| May 14, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 30 min |
| May 14, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 68 min |
| May 14, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 58 min |
| May 14, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 61 min |
| May 14, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 67 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.